Crime Against Humanity: Congo's Rape Crisis, Part I

Editor's note: This article is the first in a two-part series. Part I focuses on assistance to rape victims and educational efforts for everyday Congolese. Part II, which will appear tomorrow, looks at efforts to reform the groups responsible for rape in Congo.

DUNGU, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Two years ago in this remote territory, a young woman named Dina and three others -- another woman and two men -- fled a camp belonging to the Lord's Resistance Army rebel group. The LRA had kidnapped the four months earlier: the men as laborers or fighters, the women as sex slaves. ...